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10 My first Quarto document
11 Intro
Macalester College is in the Twin Cities. It has:
- four seasons
- bagpipes
- delightful students
Check it out for yourself:
12 Exercise 1: Deduce Quarto features
Check out the appearance and contents of this document. Thoughts?
In the toolbar at the top of this document, Render the .qmd file into a .html file. Where is this file stored? Thoughts about its appearance / contents? Can you edit it?
Toggling between the .qmd and .html files, explain the purpose of the following features in the .qmd file:
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#
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13 Exercise 2: Code
How does this appear in the .qmd? The .html? So…?!
seq(from = 100, to = 1000, by = 50)
14 Exercise 3: Chunks
Quarto isn’t a mind reader – we must distinguish R code from text. We do so by putting code inside an R chunk:
- Put the
seq()code in the chunk. - Press the green arrow in the top right of the chunk. What happens in the qmd?
- Render. What appears in the html: R code, output, or both?
15 Exercise 4: Practice
- Use R code to create the following sequence: 10 10 10 10
- Store the sequence as
four_tens. - Use an R function (which we haven’t learned!) to add up the numbers in
four_tens.
16 Exercise 5: Fix this code
Code is a form of communication, and the code below doesn’t cut it.
Put the code in a chunk and fix it.
[1] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
[1] 100.0000 147.3684 194.7368 242.1053 289.4737 336.8421 384.2105
[8] 431.5789 478.9474 526.3158 573.6842 621.0526 668.4211 715.7895
[15] 763.1579 810.5263 857.8947 905.2632 952.6316 1000.0000
17 Exercise 6: Comments
Run the chunk below. Notice that R ignores anything in a line starting with a pound sign (#). If we took the # away we’d get an error!
We’ll utilize this feature to comment our code, i.e. leave short notes about what our code is doing. Below, replace the ??? with an appropriate comment.